GoPro is being sued by the maker of an opponent camera over the outline of its most recent solid shape molded gadget.
C&A Marketing, which creates Polaroid cameras, said GoPro had encroached a US configuration patent it was conceded in May.
Both organizations have as of late discharged minimized, block molded camcorders.
One master told the BBC that GoPro may need to discover comparable outlines in people in general area that originated before Polaroid's patent to protect its item.
"Configuration licenses are a progression of drawings with an extremely short depiction of what the photos appear," said sanctioned patent lawyer Rob Jackson.
"It's about ensuring a tasteful. Because an outline is straightforward doesn't mean it can't be ensured. C&A Marketing will attempt to demonstrate that GoPro's item is excessively comparable, making it impossible to its configuration.
"GoPro's legal counselors will most likely be searching for earlier craftsmanship that is out there in people in general area, to demonstrate that the Polaroid camera was not another configuration."
The Polaroid Cube was discharged in 2014, months before adversary GoPro Session. Both cameras have a lens on one face, with a record catch on another.
C&A Marketing has approached the court for harms including the greater part of GoPro's benefit from the Session camera.
In an announcement, C&A Marketing said: "We put significant assets in the outline and advancement of an interesting item with the Polaroid Cube.
"It has adjusted edges, a marginally recessed lens and a solitary catch on top - immensely critical outline components, all utilized also by GoPro for its Hero 4 Session."
GoPro said: "notwithstanding building up the Hero 4 Session much sooner than a contender declared its item or petitioned for a patent, the Hero 4 does not encroach the contender's patent in light of the fact that its general outline is not comparable and does exclude the particular components that are required by the contender's patent."
C&A Marketing, which creates Polaroid cameras, said GoPro had encroached a US configuration patent it was conceded in May.
Both organizations have as of late discharged minimized, block molded camcorders.
One master told the BBC that GoPro may need to discover comparable outlines in people in general area that originated before Polaroid's patent to protect its item.
"Configuration licenses are a progression of drawings with an extremely short depiction of what the photos appear," said sanctioned patent lawyer Rob Jackson.
"It's about ensuring a tasteful. Because an outline is straightforward doesn't mean it can't be ensured. C&A Marketing will attempt to demonstrate that GoPro's item is excessively comparable, making it impossible to its configuration.
"GoPro's legal counselors will most likely be searching for earlier craftsmanship that is out there in people in general area, to demonstrate that the Polaroid camera was not another configuration."
The Polaroid Cube was discharged in 2014, months before adversary GoPro Session. Both cameras have a lens on one face, with a record catch on another.
C&A Marketing has approached the court for harms including the greater part of GoPro's benefit from the Session camera.
In an announcement, C&A Marketing said: "We put significant assets in the outline and advancement of an interesting item with the Polaroid Cube.
"It has adjusted edges, a marginally recessed lens and a solitary catch on top - immensely critical outline components, all utilized also by GoPro for its Hero 4 Session."
GoPro said: "notwithstanding building up the Hero 4 Session much sooner than a contender declared its item or petitioned for a patent, the Hero 4 does not encroach the contender's patent in light of the fact that its general outline is not comparable and does exclude the particular components that are required by the contender's patent."
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